Winning friends in the competitive world of today is one of life's biggest challenges. In fact it is an art. How to Win Friends and Influence People explains that nowadays people select friends and one should have distinguished qualities to make someone want to befriend you. It sounds quite materialistic but it is visible everywhere and in every walk of life. Influencing someone through one's personality is one of the mechanisms of gaining friends. This needs to be inculcated and practised. This book provides the basic skills through which one can attract people and capture their goodwill and attention.
The book highlights human psychology and reveals to the reader the ways to connect with other auras of human existence and hence influence one another gradually. The success of a person definitely comes from wealth but a majority of it depends on how expressive a person is and how impressive he or she is. The book says that an impression is created only when a person makes others feel important or elevates them to a pedestal of significance. This is an art because at no point should the other person feel like you are manipulating him or her.
How to Win Friends and Influence People was published in 1998 by Gallery Books. This reprint edition is available in paperback.
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Around 15 million copies of the book have been sold.
Dale Carnegie
An American writer, lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills, Dale Carnegie was born in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri. Public Speaking: A Practical Course for Business Men (1926) was the first collection of Carnegie’s writings. It was later entitled Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (1932). How to Win Friends and Influence People, when published by Simon and Schuster in 1936, became an instant bestseller. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) introduces the fundamental facts that one must know about worry and provides the perfect way to conquer it. How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job is a collection of selected chapters from How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living with ways to bring peace and happiness in life and achieve a work-life balance, this book will make one reassess their approach to life, people and their job. Carnegie served in the U.S. Army during the First World War in 1931, his first marriage ended in divorce and in 1944, he married Dorothy Price Vanderpool. Carnegie died in 1955 aged sixty-six at his home in Forest Hills, New York and was buried in the Belton, Cass County, Missouri, Cemetery.
Dale Carnegie
Simon & Schuster